However, a columnist in the Ecosse section of The Sunday Times was more accurate when he wrote on 30 April 2000: “The Tartan Army’s reputation for benign behaviour rests on the team’s inability to win … the team never proceeds to those stages of tournaments where the pressure rises and tempers flare … Like the quality of Scottish education … this gang of simmering drunks, england shirt career wife-avoiders and sentimental dupes has been overstated too long.” Quite england kit right! In all of this, england football top some elements of the Scottish media like to favourably contrast the “Tartan Army” with the English football supporters. A friend of mine reported a very unpleasant atmosphere engendered by some of the Scottish fans at the last Scotland v. England game at Hampden.